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Re: AmigaOS m68k clone?
« on: May 10, 2009, 09:47:34 AM »
It wouldn't take too much time to get the 68k AROS flavour going... There is a bounty for it, someone on the mailing list is preparing to take it on too!

There was quite of bit of talk about using an ST emualtor to run 68k Linux and then start by getting AROS hosted on that first (which should be really quite a straight forward process), and then get the OS running native from there!

Would be great to have a free 68k Amiga OS :-)
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Re: AmigaOS m68k clone?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2009, 12:28:46 PM »
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Would be great to have a free 68k Amiga OS :-)


Is there a classic PPC flavour at all?


No, I don't think any of the AROS devs have enough documentation for the PPC boards... There are a few PPC flavours though!
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Re: AmigaOS m68k clone?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2009, 12:47:12 PM »
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Isn't there a classic PPC linux port that could be dissected to glean the relevant information?


Well honestly I can see any motivation to do that... If you want a decent OS on your classic PPC machine MOS do a free version... Or you can buy OS4...

A royalty free 68k AmigaOS for UAE would on the other hand be rather good :-)
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Re: AmigaOS m68k clone?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2009, 08:02:36 PM »
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Well honestly I can see any motivation to do that


By your own admission, the amiga as a platform is dead. Why, then, is there any motivation to develop AROS at all? Whatever that motivation is, it is presumably applicable to any hardware that is capable of running it.

AROS for the BPPC could theoretically run a lot faster on my classic machine than AROS for the 680x0. Getting more speed out of the hardware used to be motivation enough for the majority of amiga developers :-)


I didn't mean to belittle your idea... I too have a BPPC and would love to have AROS running on it... But realisticaly, compared to 68k AROS for UAE and AROS for the x86... I can't see many devs getting very excited (BPPC boards are slow and dying)... If you want to give it a go... There are a lot of AROS PPC devs on the dev list waiting to give you advice... I guess the hardest is just setting up the BPPC hardware... Everything else is ready to go :-)
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